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Content moderation and its dis-content-moderators (with Ada Palmer)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Effects of Fear Mongering on Public Opinion
A lot of censorship practices or even copyright practices in the wake of the printing press were passed by fear mongering. Sometimes it would be a profit seeking corporation like the stationers company in London, which in the early 17th century used people's anxiety about Catholic pamphlets. And so they capitalized on that and ran fear mongery articles about it. But the effect was censorship and the means was public fear caused by the new technology.
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